An Edge-Cloud Collaborative Architecture for Proactive Elderly Care: Real-Time Risk Assessment and Three-Level Emergency Response

arXiv:2604.14154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid aging of global populations has created an urgent need for intelligent healthcare monitoring systems to ensure the safety of elderly individuals living independently. Existing cloud-centric platforms face critical limitations, including high latency unsuitable for emergency response, privacy risks from continuous transmission of sensitive data, and limited, single-channel alert mechanisms lacking scalability and context awareness. This